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Twelve Tables

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Twelve Tables
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(Historical Terms) the. the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451-450 bc


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Defuncti injuria ne afficiantur was a law of the twelve tables, and De mortuis nil nisi bonum is an excellent injunction -- even if the dead in question be nothing but dead small beer.
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